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A promising approach toward efficient energy management is non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM), that is to extract the consumption profiles of appliances within a residence by analyzing the aggregated consumption signal. Among efficient…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Elnaz Azizi , Mohammad T H Beheshti , Sadegh Bolouki

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is the method of detecting an individual device's energy signal from an aggregated energy consumption signature [1]. As existing energy meters provide very little to no information regarding the energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman Khan , Md. Abu Bakr Siddique , Shadman Sakib

Energy disaggregation estimates appliance-by-appliance electricity consumption from a single meter that measures the whole home's electricity demand. Compared with intrusive load monitoring, NILM (Non-intrusive load monitoring) is low cost,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Jonah Edmonds , Zahraa S. Abdallah

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) has been extensively researched over the last decade. The objective of NILM is to identify the power consumption of individual appliances and to detect when particular devices are on or off from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Jordan Holweger , Marina Dorokhova , Lionel Bloch , Christophe Ballif , Nicolas Wyrsch

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) aims to estimate appliance-level consumption from aggregate electrical signals recorded at a single measurement point. In recent years, the field has increasingly adopted deep learning approaches;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 L. E. Garcia-Marrero , G. Petrone , E. Monmasson

Non intrusive load monitoring (NILM), or energy disaggregation, is the process of separating the total electricity consumption of a building as measured at single point into the building's constituent loads. Previous research in the field…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-08-29 Nipun Batra , Oliver Parson , Mario Berges , Amarjeet Singh , Alex Rogers

The importance of Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) has been increasingly recognized, given that NILM can enhance energy awareness and provide valuable insights for energy program design. Many existing NILM methods often rely on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Xiangrui Li

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) is the process of obtaining appliance-level data from a single metering point, measuring total electricity consumption of a household or a business. Appliance-level data can be directly used for demand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Anže Pirnat , Blaž Bertalanič , Gregor Cerar , Mihael Mohorčič , Carolina Fortuna

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) is a well-known single-channel blind source separation problem that aims to decompose the household energy consumption into itemised energy usage of individual appliances. In this way, considerable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Yu Zhang , Guoming Tang , Qianyi Huang , Yi Wang , Hong Xu

Non Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) or Energy Disaggregation (ED), seeks to save energy by decomposing corresponding appliances power reading from an aggregate power reading of the whole house. It is a single channel blind source…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Ziyue Jia , Linfeng Yang , Zhenrong Zhang , Hui Liu , Fannie Kong

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) offers a cost-effective method to obtain fine-grained appliance-level energy consumption in smart homes and building applications. However, the increasing adoption of behind-the-meter (BTM) energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Xudong Wang , Guoming Tang , Junyu Xue , Srinivasan Keshav , Tongxin Li , Chris Ding

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) as the process of extracting the usage pattern of appliances from the aggregated power signal is among successful approaches aiding residential energy management. In recent years, high volume datasets on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Mohammad-Mehdi Keramati , Elnaz Azizi , Hamidreza Momeni , Sadegh Bolouki

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) or energy disaggregation, aims to disaggregate a household's electricity consumption into constituent appliances. More than three decades of work in NILM has resulted in the development of several novel…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-10-09 Nipun Batra , Manoj Gulati , Puneet Jain , Kamin Whitehouse , Amarjeet Singh

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM), aims to infer the power profiles of appliances from the aggregated power signal via purely analytical methods. Existing NILM methods are susceptible to various issues such as the noise and transient…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Elnaz Azizi , Mohammad TH Beheshti , Sadegh Bolouki

Energy disaggregation, a.k.a. Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring, aims to separate the energy consumption of individual appliances from the readings of a mains power meter measuring the total energy consumption of, e.g. a whole house. Energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Jie Jiang , Qiuqiang Kong , Mark Plumbley , Nigel Gilbert

Non-intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is an established technique for effective and cost-efficient electricity consumption management. The method is used to estimate appliance-level power consumption from aggregated power measurements. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Amanie Azzam , Saba Sanami , Amir G. Aghdam

In this paper, we investigate whether "big-data" is more valuable than "precise" data for the problem of energy disaggregation: the process of breaking down aggregate energy usage on a per-appliance basis. Existing techniques for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-11 Nipun Batra , Amarjeet Singh , Kamin Whitehouse

Modern smart sensor-based energy management systems leverage non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) to predict and optimize appliance load distribution in real-time. NILM, or energy disaggregation, refers to the decomposition of electricity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Zhenrui Yue , Huimin Zeng , Ziyi Kou , Lanyu Shang , Dong Wang

The global effort toward renewable energy and the electrification of energy-intensive sectors have significantly increased the demand for electricity, making energy efficiency a critical focus. Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) enables…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Ilia Kamyshev , Sahar Moghimian Hoosh , Dmitrii Kriukov , Elena Gryazina , Henni Ouerdane

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) is a technique to recover source appliances from only the recorded mains in a household. NILM is unidentifiable and thus a challenge problem because the inferred power value of an appliance given only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Michele DIncecco , Stefano Squartini , Mingjun Zhong